Gregory Hall wrote:
You don't need them unless you're the typical fat sweat hog one
sees these days cruising around in their floating condos. Eating,
sweating, complaining how they can't sleep (is it any wonder they
can't breathe when horizontal - too much fat on their necks and in
their throats that stops up the breathing passages.) It's sickening
these people who put the highest priority on eating and the lowest
on staying thin and fit which always staves off the many overweight
caused problems such as sleep apnea, snoring so loud it wakes up
the dead, acid reflux because their stomachs are too crammed full
of fatty foods to contain the acid and the overload of food, heart
disease, clogged arteries, low lung capacity, joints that hurt
because of the huge amount of weight they have to deal with,
diabetes because they're so fat and full of sugar and on and on and
on. Oh, poor things, they're hot when it's 80 degrees outside. Is
it any wonder they're hot? Big fat disgusting people with so much
insulation they could swim in the Antarctic and still sweat like a
pig. They look like walruses. And, they don't see it. They ignore
the root cause of all their infirmities.

You people who run generators so you can run air conditioners on
boats need to go somewhere and lay your fat carcasses down and die.
Rid the world of your ugliness and nuisance, why don't you? You
disgust me beyond belief.

Greg

Seems to me if you have a boat and plenty of time, you need to move it
somehwere more temperate. Average summer temperatures in Scotland, my own
stomping-ground, is around 20° C. and the cruising grounds are among the
best in the world. Today it's 11° C and foggy, so some practise on that
electronic chart system you've never really used in anger would be
obligatory.

Spitzbergen is also nice in the summer.

Dennis.